The Crawling ChaosOfficial Website

The page of twisted memories that don’t conveniently fit elsewhere has been cleaned up and expanded. (SP) see also Updated Anecdotes.

Tony Wilson

Cerysmatic has pointed out someone else’s alternative viewpoint to the normal heroic rhetoric being bandied around about the sometime record mogul. This relates to the freedom of Manchester thing, e.g. here.

Fair play to John Cooper for publishing the info on his site which, it must be said, normally throws a wholly positive light onto the whole Factory thing.

(originally posted 31/10/2007 – updated for pictures 11/10/2009)

Uprated WP code to v2.8.

18 plugins upgraded also!

Some content de-pompous-ified… (SP)

The website has had a bit of a going over, visually.  Hope you like it.

BTW.  Please send duff links informatio to the webmaster on the contact page.  Thanks.

This site has had a bit of a twiddle.  I’ve decided I like creamy beige and red for the autumn…  The new theme renders beautifully in Opera and IE7, less so in Firefox 3, which is annoying.  However, I’m also using it for my personal space here, so obviously it’s something I’m prepared to put up with  :lol:

Also, some expansion will be occuring integrating purchase facilities of old and new stuff into the site.  It’s started already.  SP

db & files ok

Mr Khult has kindly provided two pictures for the site in a communique this evening. These come from the later Crawling Chaos period.

They’ve been whacked straight into the galleries for the listener’s dissociative enjoyment.

Hopefully there will be much more like this to accompany Strangely’s current audio conversions.

Strangely Perfect has put out his first recording since 1985 when his well documented withdrawal started.  Find it here.

I’ve added some more pictures and posters that I’ve scanned and photographed today, to the pictures page.  Highlights, if you like, include the poster for the last ever Crawling Chaos gig in the Low Countries, some Blonde Ethiopian stuff, some Ernest Kakas incarnations and a late era Crawling Chaos gig.

The last one is notable  as Jeff has assembled tights and my old white leather jacket (to which he always had an attachment) into a fashion statement.  The key motif is “the painting of the faces with felt pens” in the gangster style of the “Ant Hill Mob” from Wacky Races.

This (and other gig dandiness),  pre-dates the recent gig silliness of Gnarls Barkley by two decades, proving yet again that Crawling Chaos were ahead of the times by a chasm.

As part of the work on the new (old) release of Crawling Chaos music, the art of Alistair Campbell has popped into Strangely’s head as an ideal candidate for the artwork. Strangely knew Alistair some time ago and commissioned a painting from him which hangs proudly above his bed. Unfortunately, contact was lost some time ago.

There will be previously unheard tracks, both live and studio. H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath” was an initial title musing. But not now. It will be original.